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The Republican nominee shared what his cyber priorities would be if he wins in November.

If elected in November, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in his cybersecurity agenda released today vowed to “crush” cyber criminals and ensure the U.S. government’s “unquestioned” digital dominance.

The agenda promises to bolster both the government’s cyber defenses and its offensive capabilities, building forces with the “unquestioned capacity to launch crippling cyber counterattacks” against foreign government or nonstate terror actors.

“This is the warfare of the future, America’s dominance in this arena must be unquestioned,” Trump said in the prepared remarks.

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In the plan, Trump erroneously states “hackers were able to obtain at least 20 million identities of people who underwent FBI background investigations. The information hacked contains facts discovered by the FBI in doing background checks for people seeking positions with the federal government. It is a treasure trove which can be easily used for blackmail."

The FBI does not conduct the background investigations; instead, Trump was likely referring to the Office of Personnel Management and its contractors, which carried out those investigations.

Otherwise, in many ways, Trump’s plan to dominate cybersecurity is similar to actions undertaken by the Obama administration following a series of headline-inducing hacks, including the aforementioned OPM breach that exposed the personal information of millions of security clearance holders.

To accomplish this, Trump would create a “team of the best military, civilian and private sector cybersecurity experts to comprehensively review all of our cybersecurity systems and technology,” who, in addition to reviewing all systems across all federal agencies, would seek out and investigate “suspected hackers or rogue employees.”

As part of CNAP, Obama created the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity featuring business, technology and academic leaders, and the former head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, but it doesn’t have a specific military component.

Trump compares today’s hackers to the mafia gangsters of yesteryear and called for joint federal efforts to fight them.

"We can learn from this history that when the Department of Justice, the FBI, the DEA and state and local police and prosecutors were combined in task forces directed at the mafia, they were able to have great success in prosecuting them, seizing their business interests and removing their infiltration from legitimate areas of society," he said.

Trump lists several “recent hacks” companies acknowledged in 2014: 73 million emails stolen from JPMorgan Chase, 50 million passwords pilfered from eBay, and 40 million credit card numbers taken from Target. The JPMorgan Chase hack upped its numbers to 76 million households and 7 million small businesses affected. There's no mention of the much larger, more recent Yahoo hack of 500 million user accounts, the Democratic National Committee hack or any of the summer’s other mega-cyberattacks.

Trump’s focus on building the nation’s offensive cyber capabilities implies the U.S. lacks existing capabilities in this realm. Government and military officials generally shy away from talking about the country’s offensive cyber capabilities, but in April leaders acknowledged U.S. Cyber Command brought its cyber weapons to the fight against the Islamic State. As far back as 2011, the U.S. government carried out several hundred offensive cyber operations.